All Blacks 2024
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@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024:
@Canes4life said in All Blacks 2024:
@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024:
@Canes4life said in All Blacks 2024:
Yes Ruben Love. Well bloody deserved. Bye bye Christie.
Love being one of the hardest working players in NZ must have impressed in camp.
How do you claim to know such a thing ?
Well not many players invest their own $$ to go and do a training camp over in Aus while most other players are on holiday in their off-season. Love literally hasn’t stopped training since the end of Super rugby last year. Hard work paying off for the young lad.
When the top sprint coach in Aus (who coaches a dozen of the top NRL players) says his mindset is different to any other athlete he’s coached, then it’s pretty obvious he’s got the determination and work ethic that isn’t matched by many.
Good on him but I’m sure all pro Rugby players work extremely hard or they wouldn’t be pro Rugby players in the first place.
Yeah obviously but it’s the extras that set some players apart from others. Sometimes putting in the extra yards when everyone else stops is what gets you ahead as an athlete. Aaron Smith was renowned for being by far the hardest working player at the Highlanders and it showed on the field.
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@Winger said in All Blacks 2024:
RR in preference to Bell
You lost me with this one. Up until this year RR has been a bit of a joke, Cane's fans didn't like him and Blue's fans weren't dancing in the aisles when he moved to the Blues. He did a job with the support of a very good pack and an equally good game plan. The problem is, he is still the same player he was at the Canes. He is not an international player.
I get Bell didn't have the best year, and he probably wasn't even the best hooking Bell, but at least he is a nod to the future.
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@Winger so you’re not on his side. Are you not supporting the All Blacks now.
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@Canes4life said in All Blacks 2024:
Well not many players invest their own $$ to go and do a training camp over in Aus while most other players are on holiday in their off-season. Love literally hasn’t stopped training since the end of Super rugby last year.
A bunch of other players were playing Test rugby after Super season finished...
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@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks 2024:
Don’t understand Cane’s selection
Yeah. So they'd rather give an outgoing player a swansong RC instead of bringing Hoskins in to see if they can work with him to get him up to speed for the future
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@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024:
@Chris said in All Blacks 2024:
Brilliant squad well done the selectors.
I’ll sleep better knowing Havilli is finally there to cover 10
Me too it’s a relief.
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@canefan said in All Blacks 2024:
@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks 2024:
Don’t understand Cane’s selection
Yeah. So they'd rather give an outgoing player a swansong RC instead of bringing Hoskins in to see if they can work with him to get him up to speed for the future
Different positions.
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I'm beyond thrilled that they've dumped the Antichristie, however that's tempered by the wtf selection of Havili. Is there another player whose career has been so kissed on the dick?
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@Crazy-Horse said in All Blacks 2024:
Cane's fans didn't like him a
Not as I remember it. But he was behind Coles and Aumua. And he wa sobviously a big step down esp back then
He struggled at the Blues but this year be really stepped up. And if there were injuries and either bell or RR to start. RR for me
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@chchfanatic said in All Blacks 2024:
@Winger so you’re not on his side. Are you not supporting the All Blacks now.
Im not on his side in this area, I hope, like Hnery did with Rush, he stops the pro Crusader nonense. Otherwsie we will end up with an an almost all Crusader team starting if the Crusders ever win again.
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@Chris said in All Blacks 2024:
@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024:
@Chris said in All Blacks 2024:
Brilliant squad well done the selectors.
I’ll sleep better knowing Havilli is finally there to cover 10
Me too it’s a relief.
He wasn't even keep there for a poor Crusaders side. But now hes an AB first
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@Winger said in All Blacks 2024:
@Chris said in All Blacks 2024:
@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024:
@Chris said in All Blacks 2024:
Brilliant squad well done the selectors.
I’ll sleep better knowing Havilli is finally there to cover 10
Me too it’s a relief.
He wasn't even keep there for a poor Crusaders side. But now hes an AB first
Keeping his powder dry Saving him for the ABs.
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@antipodean said in All Blacks 2024:
@Canes4life said in All Blacks 2024:
Well not many players invest their own $$ to go and do a training camp over in Aus while most other players are on holiday in their off-season. Love literally hasn’t stopped training since the end of Super rugby last year.
A bunch of other players were playing Test rugby after Super season finished...
Indeed. I hope Love turns into a fine test player, I like the look of him far more than Perofeta overall but the constant “big upping” of Canes players on here gets tiresome.
…..and I’m as proud a Wellingtonian as it’s possible to be.
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@antipodean said in All Blacks 2024:
that's tempered by the wtf selection of Havili. Is there another player whose career has been so kissed on the dick?
Reuben Thorne.
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@antipodean said in All Blacks 2024:
I'm beyond thrilled that they've dumped the Antichristie, however that's tempered by the wtf selection of Havili. Is there another player whose career has been so kissed on the dick?
Up until now, the answer to that question was Christie
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@sparky said in All Blacks 2024:
@antipodean said in All Blacks 2024:
that's tempered by the wtf selection of Havili. Is there another player whose career has been so kissed on the dick?
Reuben Thorne.
Possibly harsh. Not the most exciting or dynamic of players, certainly not compared to JC, Kaino, Flavell etc. But four different AB coaches selected him and I’m willing to bow to their knowledge and accept when it came to doing shit work there were none better at the time.
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@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024:
@sparky said in All Blacks 2024:
@antipodean said in All Blacks 2024:
that's tempered by the wtf selection of Havili. Is there another player whose career has been so kissed on the dick?
Reuben Thorne.
Possibly harsh. Not the most exciting or dynamic of players, certainly not compared to JC, Kaino, Flavell etc. But four different AB coaches selected him and I’m willing to bow to their knowledge and accept when it came to doing shit work there were none better at the time.
Thought he took his demotion by GH with class and worked his way back into the side to become a useful member of the team
